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From: "James S. Rogers" <JimMaureenRogers@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Assembler most efficient??? (was Re: What is wrong with OO ?)
Date: 1997/01/11
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Richie said
> 
> "Part of the difficulty compilers have with generating good code
> is that CPUs are being designed by people who coded in assembler
> and never had to write a compiler."
> 
> On the contrary, for example, the design of the MIPS chip was
> done with input from compiler considerations all along the way. In some
> sense the whole business of pipelined RISC architecture is intimately
> wound up with compiler considerations.

Another example is the HP-PA-RISC chip.  Extensive work was done
profiling the instructions from many languages including COBOL,
Pascal and C.  In fact, this effort is what the "PA" in the name
of the architecture stands for.  "PA" is Precision Architecture.
It refers to the fact that the architecture is built upon the
very extensive and precise measurements HP made to determine
which architectural features were most important to modern
computing.